>>150002817
Doesn't even seem like they had much faith in the original source material since a huge percentage of every episode ends up being about the next door neighbors who don't seem to have even existed in the original comics.
People called Peter Griffin a rip off of Homer but this guy's design is way more of a rip-off. I mean just look at him. He even has a bratty little troublemaker son akin to Bart so there's a lot of that Simpsons "*Homer getting mad at Bart* WHY YOU LITTLE!..." dynamic between the two.